linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

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Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:52:08 +0100
From:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Cc:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	oerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zamsden@...hat.com>, ziteng.huang@...el.com,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:19:04PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> Implementing a virtualized DRM/KMS driver would at least get you the
> framebuffer interface more or less for free, while allowing you to deal
> with the userspace side of things incrementally (ie, running a dummy xorg
> on top of the virtualized fbdev until the DRI side catches up). It would
> also enable you to focus on the 2D and 3D parts independently.

Guys, have a look at Gallium.  In many ways it's a pile of crap, but
at least it's a pile of crap designed by vmware for *exactly* your
problem space.

  OG.
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